Western Province coach Allister Coetzee has made one change and one positional switch ahead of his team's Currie Cup clash against the Free State Cheetahs at Newlands on Saturday.

Coetzee has promoted loosehead prop Wicus Blaauw to the run-on XV in place of Schalk Ferreira, who drops to the bench.

But the big news at the WP media conference was the promotion of Springbok centre Gcobani Bobo as captain for the match against the Cheetahs.

Bobo takes over the captaincy from lock Ross Skeate, who led Province to a stirring victory over the Blue Bulls at Newlands last weekend.

Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Tonderai Chavhanga, 13 Dylan Des Fountain, 12 Gcobani Bobo (captain), 11 Wylie Human, 10 Willem De Waal, 9 Alastair Siegelaar, 8 AJ Venter, 7 Francois Louw, 6 Pieter Myburgh, 5 Ross Skeate, 4 Adriaan Fondse, 3 Brok Harris, 2 Schalk Brits, 1 Wicus Blaauw. Replacements: 16 Deon Fourie, 17 Schalk Ferreira, 18 Francois Van Der Merwe, 19 Justin Melck, 20 Paul Delport, 21 Isma-eel Dollie, 22 Morgan Newman.

Date: Saturday, July 5
Venue: Newlands Stadium, Cape Town
Kick-off: 15.00 (13.00 GMT)
Referee: Craig Joubert
Touch judges: Theuns Jonker, Roderick Barry
Television match official: Willie Roos

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